It was a bit like do you have a broken bone? And if you broke it in high school, you would say no,” Kilmer explained. “They said I was denying that I had cancer, and when they asked me, I didn’t have cancer. When asked why he denied having cancer, Kilmer replied, “Because I didn’t have cancer.”
But Kilmer denied it, saying he had “no cancer whatsoever.” His co-star in The Ghost and the Darkness, Michael Douglas, let slip to reporters he had cancer. Several years ago, Kilmer was photographed wearing scarves and tabloids speculated about his health. After surgery, his treatment plan included chemotherapy and radiation “that zapped my whole throat, and it’s still dry as a bone.” It left him with a tracheostomy tube and a feeding tube. “I would’ve had to go away, and I just didn’t want to be without them.” “I just didn’t want to experience their fear, which was profound,” Kilmer said of his decision. The Doors star listened to them and agreed to get medical treatment. Kilmer’s kids are not Christian Scientists and his family did not want him to go try and heal by himself.
The 61-year-old actor shares two adult children with ex-wife Joanne Whalley: Jack, 24, and Mercedes, 28. Kilmer said the Christian Science cure would be to work with a practitioner, similar to a spiritual adviser, and pray his fear away so that his body would no longer “manifest outwardly what can be diagnosed as a malady.” That meant it’s not really cancer, but that he just had to go away for awhile and pray to relocate his faith within himself. Val Kilmer and his daughter Mercedes at the 2019 annual Thespians Go Hollywood Gala at Avalon Hollywood on Nov.
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